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SES and Airbus Secure Site for Europe’s Flagship EAGLE-1 Quantum Optical Ground Station
Satellite operator SES and Airbus Netherlands B.V. have signed an official ground lease agreement with the Dutch municipality of Noordwijk to begin constructing a dedicated optical ground station (GS). Located at the NL Space Campus—directly adjacent to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) technical hub, ESTEC—the facility will serve as the primary terrestrial link for the upcoming EAGLE-1 satellite, Europe’s premier end-to-end demonstration platform for space-based Quantum Key Distribution (QKD).
